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Dec 31, 2024 · Clerk, raid dominate year’s news. By ERIC MEYER. Staff writer. Looking ahead to 2025 surely must be more pleasant than looking back on 2024, a year in which unprecedented state and even national and international attention continued to be thrust upon Marion County.

3 days ago · With four county girls teams left, three competed at the Cougar classic. Marion won it all, securing their coach’s 100th career victory in the process. The Warriors swept last week’s competition aside at the Cougar Classic, winning the championship game 47-34 Saturday over Herington to secure ...

Jan 8, 2025 · Man, 89, survives 2 hours on icy ground. By PHYLLIS ZORN. Staff writer. Curtis Maag spent more than two hours on the ground in Sunday’s freezing temperatures and was found, unconscious, by a deputy about 6:30 p.m.

Jan 16, 2025 · Two new county commissioners were sworn in Monday and another was bid a fond farewell Jan. 8. Outgoing county commissioner Randy Dallke, who served 20 years on the commission before being outvoted by Clarke Dirks, received a plaque and a pin commemorating his service Jan. 8. Commissioner Kent Becker ...

3 days ago · A water pipe burst at 9:30 a.m. Sunday in Goessel, causing damage to S. Buller St. and the water to go out for many residents. The public works department, of which director Alex Goossen is the only full-time employee, quickly got to work. A community social media page informed residents of the leak ...

3 days ago · The algae first came to the county in May 2003. Vibrant, foamy “blooms” sprang up all but overnight on the surface of Marion Reservoir. They were blue and bright green, their splotchy shapes resembling alien life forms. And they were everywhere. Since that May, blooms have popped up every summer ...

Sep 20, 2023 · Today, the Marion County Record starts its 155th year of continuous publication. More than 8,000 issues of the paper have come off the press since Issue No. 1 on Sept. 24, 1869. Famed Kansas lawmen Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson were still teenagers living back east when the Record, then known as The Western News, editorialized in its first issue printed in Marion about the need for better ...

Dec 31, 2024 · ACCIDENTS. REPORTED. These accident reports were released this past week by law enforcement agencies: SHERIFF. Nighthawk Rd. south of 100th Rd. Marjorie A. Hufman, 73, Hillsboro, hit a deer at 6:01 p.m. Dec. 19 with her 2020 Ford F-150, which sustained damage characterized as minor to its left front and hood, according to one of …

Dec 24, 2024 · Students split on dropping Wildcats. Straw poll finds only a quarter of community favors nickname change. By ERIC MEYER. Staff writer. Contrary to what previously was reported, less than half of students and less than a quarter of community members surveyed favor abandoning Wildcats as the nickname for Marion Middle School.